Ren'Py - Witch Hunter [v0.21.2] [Lazy tarts]

This game is one of the best on this site.
I really don't understand why people are not happy with it. There are so many games on this site where the tags it has are meaningless because it basically doesn't exist or is executed horrible. Here the fetishes really hit. The blackmail, the corruption and others are done to perfection.
The art is very good, the story progresses nicely.
I just used the built in cheat so I didn't have to grind.

If you like the tags, you have to play it.

Wonderful game with high-quality graphics, and an amazing storyline, had fun playing it and will recommend anyone interested in sandbox-like games to play this, it's not just another read dialog al the time kinda game you actually have to explore, I like a challenge and it doesn't feel like a grind.

I have no idea the source material it is parody of. But I still enjoyed playing through this. Even with the grammar errors in English it was still understandable and was an interesting story. The bookstore minigame is a bit grindy for money but also is probably the most creative one I've seen for a Renpy game.

My only complaint is that Cedrick's snake form's dick is brought up several times and you never even get to see it let alone see it in action XD. All in all definitely worth the time downloading to try and see if you want to support it.

Brilliant game, great animation, amazing story that keeps you interested. Definitely in my top 5 adult games of current times. Never seen the original cartoon that this was based on but as parodies go, this is a quality made one! *****

[v0.17.0.1]
So, you have notably two events where the game goes out of its way so that you can choose to keep a girl to yourself, which your character themselves notes they want as their personal property, but then if you do, you are eventually blindsided and forced to give her to your boss, and train her for your boss, being forced to fight 10 monsters, before you can fight another monster, all to give a girl away, or it's game over in at least 4 different ways? Before giving her away, you are literally given at least 9 different choices of what to say, but are forced to choose the 3 consecutive choices the game forces you to choose, which gives her away, or it's game over if you choose anything else.

Yeah, that's some BS right there. NTR, Netorare, Netorase, Cuckolding, "Sharing", whatever you want to call it. It's cuckshit that the game goes out of it's way to force onto you without warning, after letting you think you didn't need to worry about it. This same character can be thrown away earlier so there's no plot driven reason to
even do this. It's just insulting.

On top of that the writing and plot can be inconsistent and out of order. For example, one character claims her parents won't let her do something, but at this point in time her parents could have been long gone (and were in my playthrough) making this a plothole. The MC can also change from character to character to the point he'll go out of his way to rape a few, but go out of his way to date a few others. Whatever the writer wants, he'll do, including being a plaything for some girl he just met, when he could literally make her disappear or be his sex slave. Things he's done to others.

There's also times where the dialogue misses a word, but nothing that detrimental, and fortunately the only thing that's untranslated (that I've noticed) are a few pictures that you can optionally view in a porn mag.

Combat is also annoying, and to be frank, I don't see why anyone would want to play this game without cheats in the first place. Even then, though, combat is still annoying. Missing at times and being stunned so you can't move for a turn, will never be fun to me.

Overall, The writing and story isn't really anything you won't mind skipping through, the gameplay is just clicking whatever the game tells you to click, and apparently the little player agency there is, will either be mocked or ignored later on. At the end of the day the only thing that makes this game notable is it being a parody and it having nice art. The animations are also fine, so 2 stars. 1 for being playable at least, and another for the art.

There is little content, the content itself is very weak at the level of 14 years, the plot is also not interesting. The characters are boring, the gameplay is too.
It's not bad drawn, but the dialogues during sex scenes are just garbage.

Great game! just lost hours of progress due to it having some kind of "time limit" in some decisions and the main bad guy just killed me giving me a game over with no chance of going back to that decision. Tried to start again and one of the main quest was bugged! making impossible to advance in that save. But I suppose im the one to blame since I didn't save so often, right?

The art is absolutely gorgeus, and the writing is not bad.
However, the game is nigh unplayable without cheats, the story might be a little too dark for the taste of some people and the worst part is that the corruption element is very poorly managed, tbh. There's just one girl you can corrupt, which you can't really do until well deep into the story, and not only does the corruption have very little options from the beginning, it does weird jumps from the girl being uncomfortable with you seeing her tits, to her totally naked grinding on your dick.
Another pretty disappointing fact is that when you get the gallery unlocked, you don't get a reenacting of the event, but a few images of the intercourse, like just the different frames, no text, no nothing else. So if you can get off just by looking at those images or if you enjoy this kind of game as structured as it is, it's for you. Otherwise, not really. A shame such incredibly hot art is not accompanied by a good system to play.

I love the art and of course the story. While the story been quite linear the passing feels great. the corruption of these beloved characters is well done. Im greatly impressed by the mother-daughter scene and twin-girl scene well done.

promising, but suddenly the mc lost the ability to think, became a pussy and sharing/voyeurism became unavoidable.
ruined the game for me.
wouldn't recommend.
it lost it's potential. which is a shame.

Art quality and Animations - 5/5

The visual aspect of the game is its strong suite by far. It manages to pretty much carry the game to the finish line each time. The quality of both art in NSFW scenes and SFW ones is good and stays consistent in each new update. This good quality of caries on the animations as well, which makes them stand out even more. It is a shame that the animations are not that many, and they are overall quite short with only one loop present.

For me at least, the best part of this game, is the art style, it has a nice blend between western art style and more anime style art. It also keeps in touch with the original aspect of the characters from the original show. I may say this is the best in terms of 2D art style that i saw until now. It manages to give a look of fantasy and realism at the same time without going in any of the extremes. In short, it hits a very nice sweet spot, which I did not get from other games.

Music and Atmosphere - 4/5

The game manages to create a nice atmosphere for its scene most of the time, which makes in turn the immersion easier to maintain. The backgrounds for the NSFW scenes and animations are well-made, and they do not feel as being left out. Another good point that helps with building the atmosphere is the build up before the juicy scenes, which the experience all the better.

Still on this side of things the background music, fits the game's well and the choices of the soundtracks made for various scenes was made in a tasteful manner. One negative aspect here may be is that the soundtracks chosen are not unique to this game and depending on what games you played before you might already know the tracks and take away from the immersion. But is still commandable that there is any background music.

Story, Setting and Characters - 3/5

I found the characters likable and believable, and their personalities to be above average compared to the rest of the adult games out there. For the most part, the characters motivations, actions and desires are plausible and rational. The guardians personalities feel different and unique, which for me was a pleasant surprise, since I expected for their personalities to be a carbon copy of each other.

I have no gripes with Cedric as a character or his actions, for the most part his actions were understandable and fell in line with the rest of the story. Elyon on the other hand seems to have a too simple personality and which does not make the task of Cedric with her especially hard. Although I saw in the 0.17 update a hint towards how Elyon might develop, and I like that direction.

As for the rest of the supporting characters, for me, they were forgettable and some of them feel like they were abandoned by the dev. Some examples that come to mind are the sister of Cornelia, the mothers of Irma and Hay Lin which were introduced in the story and had some scenes, but they were left out while their plot lines kind of developed into plot dead ends. I am sure they will be addressed in the next updates.

Going forward to the next point, which is the story. At the beginning, the story feels unfocused and lacking purpose. I mean, the general mission and drive of Cedric was clear, but the way it was carried on further is unfocused and missing clear objectives. Fortunately, this seems to be changing, and the story is getting interesting again.

The last point for this section is the setting. Here, the settings vary from overly used ones to not used at all. What I mean by not used at all, a good example is the park, where some story events took place and after that it was left abandoned, there are no H scenes or events there, and it is a shame because there is good potential to give more variety to the story. Another example is the station or Elyon house.

Gameplay - 3/5

Generally the gameplay is not great, not terrible. There is not something unique in terms of gameplay, for the most part is the average visual novel gameplay experience. What ruins the experience and might turn some people away are the mini-games and the grind. Grinding in the bookshop for money and for Elyon corruption are not an engaging experiences and feel for the most part a chore. It takes quite a while to get into the meet of things, but for me, it was worth it.

If you do not find the grind pleasant at all, at least there are some cheat codes you can use to skip most of it.

I will also add here the routes you can take in the game, or more exactly the lack of them. There are no routes you can take besides the one with Will, which truth be told I cannot really classify as a route, but more like an option on how you prefer to interact with her and what scenes you can get, the end result being the same. For the most part, the decisions taken in the game have no effect on the story.

If it were not for the grinding and the Will options, this game could be classified under the kinetic visual novel category. I personally hope that there will be more choices to be had going forward.

Update cycle and Content ratio - 4/5

I started playing this game at 0.15.2 version and went through 2 updates 0.16.1 and 0.17.0.1. And I got to say that the update cycle for the two versions was not a predictable one. The wait time between updates varied quite much, and the same true in terms of content. From 0.15.2 to 0.16.1 the content update was on the small side, truth be told it felt more like a bonus content to 0.15.2 than actual progress in terms of story. From 0.16.1 to 0.17.0.1 this felt more like a proper update in both terms of content and story progression.

I have to say that 0.17.0.1 set a good standard for content update for his game and I hope the devs stick with it going forward.

As for the future of this game. On the Patreon page, the dev shared a roadmap for the future game updates, and the last update that the game will receive will be 0.25, meaning that there will be another 8 major updates for the game. What I can say about this is that it feels bad to know that the game will end. I am thinking and hoping that maybe the devs will release two more updates after 0.25, like a DLC, to show how the characters evolved after some time. But time will tell.

Overall, the update cycle for this game is in the range of not great, not terrible and maynly the score for this section is based on the update 0.17.01. There was a long waiting time for 0.17.0.1 due to some world events, but on the flip side, there was plenty of content to be had.

First of all, use cheats. The game is really grindy, the systems introduced at the beginning are ass and the dev seems to have realized that but instead of changing the system he just added a cheat mode.

Secondly, the MC is a huge dick in about the first half of the game, to a point where i legitimately felt bad for Elyon.

The art is absolutely amazing, the character art, porn, backgrounds, it's all great. The latter content also introduces nice animations.

Combat kinda sucks ass but you can always scum through rollback.

As for writing, considering what sort of game this is, it's fine.
Do expect some typos though, it's never gotten bad enough where i wouldn't know what's going on but every now and again you'll find a word spelled wrong or repeated.

Up untill recently the game was overall Meh except for the art. A 3/5 at best.

HOWEVER

The latest patches were a 5/5, the content with Susan, Will as well as the progress of the MC and Miranda was great. Will's corruption went great with a hint of mindcontrol and actual choices, combined with the MC basically remembering how great he used to be and returning closer to his prime for the lack of a better word, thus becoming more competent, less of a....retard and gaining a very specific and limited mind control power (Such as it can't contradict their values, it can't go against objective reality, can only be done once etc.) This is also roughly the point where the Mind Control tag actually kicks in, you wont really find any prior to this with one exception.

I've mostly just skipped through text in the first 2/3 of the game but this caught my attention and actually got me to read and i honestly quite like where it's going.

Taking into account how "ok" most of the game is and how much i legitimately like the recent developments, i've arrived to a 4/5, would give 4.5/5 if i could

If it's gonna be 4/5 for you or a 2/5 will depend entirely on how used you are to scumming shitty game systems. Namely the combat since the rest is fixed with the cheat. For example there's a point where you need 10 of an item that drops from a specific a monster, if you rollback at the start of combat, it can spawn in a different monster, do that if you didn't get the one you need. So i've done that and got done with the 10 items quickly, if i didn't though, i'd probably quit lmao. Same goes for the difficult bosses, just attack and then fish for enemies missing their attack through rollbacking, otherwise you'll have a bad time.
I'm used to it from shit tier porn games so scumming combat doesn't bother me but if you're not used to gameplay systems designed by artists, i'd honestly wait and see if the maker of this game expands the cheat to also oneshotting mobs (or until people somehow figure out what the new console command for oneshotting enemies is, because as of now, it doesn't work on my PC).

Pros
Good art and thats all

Cons
- A few poorly animations

- Lack of good dialogue during sex scenes (the most common dialogue during sex scene is "... .... ....")

- Unavoidable sharing scenes (girls with other guys dicks)

- So much grinding

Static sex scenes and lack of dialogues are the worst (it feels like i am watching r34 images and not playing a VN

v0.16.1

Brief-A game based on the WITCH series where you corrupt the (aged up) heroines. A great premise, some interesting scenarios and overall good art is somewhat let down by grind, design and imperfect translation. If you like the look of the preview, it's worth a download if you use cheats.

In depth-
Story: Good start with built-in lore gives a strong setup to the game, it's nice to have an unrepentantly evil MC for once. I think the developer really needs to work out the motivations for each character and go from there, as it is they keep changing from update to update. This is most obvious in that the MC starts seducing the Guardians then abruptly decides to blackmail them for no discernable reason other than opportunism. He blackmails one girl threatening to expose her criminal boyfriend, then lets said BF die without trying to secure her loyalty. It's hard to get invested in the story when your MC is making such nonsensical decisions.
The English is subpar, although never incomprehensible. It just seems like the translation from Russian has left in a few typos and a whole lot of awkward phrasing. D
Art: Probably the strongest part of the game. The females are realistically proportioned, fairly unique and some sex scenes are very well done with a gallery available. My main quibble is that a few of the faces seem a bit "off", especially the main LI. B
UI: No major complaints given that I'll whinge about the battles in the next bit. Bulk buying would be a welcome addition. B
Gameplay: Grindy and railroaded. Definitely use the cheats to escape the money grind, and I'd recommend using the console to cheat through the repetitive forest battles. For a grind to be enjoyable there needs to be a sense of progression, but other than going up in levels for combat, there is none. Something like equipment or powerups is needed and the bookstore minigame needs to be shorter (but just as rewarding) with only 1 shoplifter per shift.
Quest-wise, at the moment you just follow where the exclamation mark leads you to the next quest. To make it feel like there's more choice, the character plots would need to be available concurrently, rather than the current situation of being forced to pursue one character for a while then completely forgetting about them. E (or D with cheats)
Discretionary: Despite the above concerns I did enjoy playing this game and the latest update seems to be a step in the right direction, with actual choice and plot developments. This, combined with my belief that most of the issues could be remedied gives me hope. A
Overall: 3 (4 with cheats)

The game is pretty good early on, pretty awesome art , but I eventually find myself giving it 2 stars , it fell from my expectation later on. The Combat is tiring and somewhat annoying when leveling or gathering materials. The grind can definitely take up a portion of your time in the game which to me presents another con. Then later there are scenes I wish that have alternate endings to, like Alchemy's. Handing her over to Phobos and sending her to get fucked by others, feels like ntr/ being cucked out of a character which felt annoying. It felt like it forced and I just felt disappointed in the game. The entire part became another con. It would have been better to give a option for us to choose maybe a different route. Maybe give us a route where we don't hand her over, you can still keep the other route as a choice for others who like that, but a different route to make it not seem so forced. Also the corruption tag, doesn't really fit into this, its more coercing them into it. Elyon scenario isn't corruption since your not corrupting them forcefully. I know that the game is still unfinished, so there is a good chance that it could still be changed. Hopefully alteration could be made in the future, until then I would suggest holding off from playing it, if you find the cons less appealing to you.

A really solid game so far. Content wise its also packed - I'm playing for 4 hours straight and still not at the end of the game.
I like that we play as the bad guy, who uses corruption on the girls around him to achieve goals. When some guys crosses our way we often have the chance to get rid of them for good ha - love that!
On the downside: MC is at times a bit a goofball and he got surprised from one of the girls and teased around (which is not my kink), but all around hes ok and not a wet noodle. Blackmail is used and rape is also not a taboo! YES! Don't excpect romance here.

By the way the graphics are unique, I like the drawing style! The game really looks good and is fun to play altough its sandbox. Im not a fan of sandbox, but you can always look in questlog to see what the next step is. All the places to visit next are marked with an exclamation mark on the map.

All around so far a good game!

Review v0.16.0.4
Cute art dragged down by a messy plot and grindy gameplay along with at least one gamebreaking bug. Highly recommend playing in cheat mode. 2.5 stars.

Gameplay wise: A very boring point and click game with pre-determined choices that offer no variety for the first 70%. Definitely NOT a sandbox.
(I recommend turning cheats on to see events, I did about 15 mins in when I figured out the system and the devs probably know how draggy their older system is by making cheats available from the start)

Story-wise, pretty sub-par with characters acting pretty unnaturally, although the premise of wanting to see some corruption did manage to keep me engaged.

Probably would have left it 3/5 since I did play from start to finish.

HOWEVER, the newer stuff towards the end like with Will and Susan, is simply fantastic. Finally some real choices AND they are well directed and drawn. If the content was simply(or built like that) that it would be an immediate 5/5.

Unfortunately, I am here to rate the whole game experience not the latest patches, so I'll compromise with a 4/5. Definitely will keep tabs on the progress with the remarkable improvement.

Too simple, but very good for a demo. Would love to see it more fleshed out with Elyon's story. Her not just going a long with it that easily. But that's just one mans opinion.
Again for a v0.15 this is pretty good.

Probably one of my favorite games on this site, it really captures de spirit of the original series, it is a real good game all things considered, also the art is fantastic somka and his team really made me want to watch the show again